Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Hugh (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Le Fanu, J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140437460 ISBN 13: 9780140437461

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2000

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One of the most significant and intriguing Gothic novels of the Victorian period and is enjoyed today as a modern psychological thriller. In UNCLE SILAS (1864) Le Fanu brought up to date Mrs Radcliffe's earlier tales of virtue imprisoned and menacedby unscrupulous schemers. The narrator, Maud Ruthyn, is a 17 year old orphan left in the care of her fearful uncle, Silas. Together with his boorish son and a sinister French governess, Silas plots to kill Maud and claim her fortune. The novel established Le Fanu as a master of horror fiction.

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Dublin-born Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) established himself as a journalist and writer of fiction and became one of the best-selling authors of the 1860-80s. His sinister and supernatural tales are the precursors of the modern ghost story.
Victor Sage teaches English at the University of East Anglia. A literary critic and short story writer, he has published critical books on Gothic literature, including Horror Fiction in the Protestant Tradition (Macmillan).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0140437460
• ISBN 13: 9780140437461
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 528
• Herausgeber: Sage Victor
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